> One possibility here, to try to increase security without spending an
> inordinate portion of development time on it, would be something like
> this. Have a separate page on site for "who has access to what" with
> things like vgifts, text messages, editing tags, etc. etc. each of which
> can be set to everyone/registered users only/trusted only/trust filter
> only/nobody.
>
> Then, when adding new features that might want to be restricted, just
> add NewFeature to this page, and call hasPermision.NewFeature (or
> whatever) to check permission.

I think this is very much now the new settings page works.  Will have
to ask Janine about it as she's the resident expert on it, but I
believe it makes adding settings very easy.

> I'm not a dev, so if this is either completely implausible or blindingly
> obvious, feel free to beat me around the head with a large perl manual. :)

Hey, we don't beat up our volunteers around here!  ;)


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Mark Smith / xb95
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